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Josh Brolin Added To Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘Inherent Vice’ By Russ Fischer/May 28, 2013 8:17 pm EST

Larry Charles Directing ‘A Walk In The Woods’ With Robert Redford And Nick Nolte By Germain Lussier/Nov. 1, 2013 2:45 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The director of Borat and former writer of Star Wars Episode VII are teaming up to bring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte into nature. Larry Charles (Borat, Seinfeld) will direct A Walk in the Woods, based on the memoir by Bill Bryson....

LOL: Watch ‘Back To The Future’ Star Tom Wilson Sing The “Sci-Fi Convention Song” By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2012 11:15 am EST When you’ve been in entertainment for decades, yet are only remembered for three movies you did almost twenty years ago, a sense of humor is a must. Tom Wilson most certainly has that. The actor who played all manor of Biff Tannen, the villain in all three Back to the Future movies, makes his living these days as a stand up comedian....

LOL: What It’s Like To See Every Marvel Movie (For Fans And Non-Fans) By Peter Sciretta/Nov. 26, 2013 3:00 pm EST The latest edition of the Dorkly web comic has a great take on what its like for comic book fans to see a Marvel movie vs. non-comic book readers. Check out the full web comic after the jump. You can read more web comics from Dorkly at Dorkly.com. LOL: What It’s Like To See Every Marvel Movie (For Fans And Non-Fans)...

Page 2: Iron Man, Aaron Sorkin, Natural Born Killers, Blade Runner, Joe Dante, Captain America, I Heart Huckabees, Wonder Woman By Peter Sciretta/March 25, 2011 12:00 pm EST IFC Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the heist comedy Flypaper, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Joe Dante provides commentary for the trailer for Dime With a Halo in the latest edition of Trailers From Hell.Donald Glover hopes they will someday make a Back to the Future episode of Community....

Paramount Will Release ‘That’s What I’m Talking About’ From Richard Linklater By Russ Fischer/Sept. 30, 2014 7:00 am EST Richard Linklater is using the momentum he built with Before Midnight and Boyhood to finally move forward on That’s What I’m Talking About, the film that has been described as a “spiritual sequel” to Dazed & Confused. It’s not an actual sequel, but a 1980-set film that follows set of characters as they go to college....

Ridley Scott Hints Xenomorphs Won’t Be Part Of ‘Prometheus 2;’ Talks ‘Blade Runner 2’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 25, 2014 6:30 am EST Ridley Scott has one of the best problems you can have in Hollywood. He’s got a number of projects in development that he desperately wants to make, and which financiers want to fund. The problem is, he’s just one man, and the second he commits to a project, others get moved back....

Roger Ebert On Film Criticism By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2013 1:10 pm EST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FCVlQ_5aSI&feature=youtu.be We miss you already. Roger Ebert On Film Criticism By Peter Sciretta/April 4, 2013 1:10 pm EST http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FCVlQ_5aSI&feature=youtu.be We miss you already. We miss you already.

Steven Soderbergh Cuts Together Both Versions Of ‘Psycho’ In Editing Experiment By Russ Fischer/Feb. 25, 2014 3:30 pm EST Steven Soderbergh’s site Extension 765 hosts a handful of items for sale, from photos to shirts and other ephemera. Occasionally Soderbergh will also deliver some other unusual items, and today’s post is a video called Psychos, which cuts together footage from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho and Gus Van Sant’s much-maligned remake. The result is a feature-length film that bounces between the two sources, sometimes in the same scene, with Van Sant’s footage rendered in black and white to better cut with Hitchcock’s....

VOTD: Five Hours Of B-Roll Featuring Akira Kurosawa Directing ‘Ran’ By Germain Lussier/Sept. 3, 2013 5:00 pm EST While we’re lucky to live in a time where so many legendary filmmakers make their work and process accessible, there will always be a mystery behind some of the masters. Filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Ford, Frank Capra and many others passed away long before the age of video blogs, Twitter and behind the scenes DVD featurettes, leaving film fans with a precious few chances to study them in action....

Watch The Full ‘Game Of Thrones’ Hall H Panel [Comic-Con 2014] By Angie Han/July 26, 2014 9:36 am EST Over 6,000 Game of Thrones fans were in attendance at the show’s Comic-Con panel on Friday, held in the notorious Hall H. But that still leaves millions of Game of Thrones fans who weren’t, whether because they couldn’t hack the Hall H line or because they weren’t in San Diego at all....

‘Behind The Candelabra’ Teaser Tickles The Ivories By Russ Fischer/March 4, 2013 8:32 am EST Is Steven Soderbergh really retiring from directing movies, or is he merely taking a nice vacation/hiatus, or spending some time thinking more about making TV projects rather than theatrical films? Hard to say for sure at this point, as his statements on the subject have ranged through all those possibilities over the past year. We do know that the last thing he shot was the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas as the famed entertainer and Matt Damon as his lover Scott Thorson....

‘Drinking Buddies’ Trailer: Olivia Wilde And Jake Johnson Find The Line Between Love And Friendship By Russ Fischer/June 20, 2013 11:49 am EST Joe Swanberg’s new film Drinking Buddies is his most traditionally polished effort, but it still has the raw emotional intensity of his best ultra low budget work. The film features a great quartet: Anna Kendrick, Jake Johnson, Ron Livingston, and Olivia Wilde. The four actors play two committed couples, but lines between them are starting to blur as dissatisfaction with each is complicated by the friendship between Wilde and Johnson’s characters....

‘Margin Call’ Movie Poster Revealed By Peter Sciretta/Jan. 10, 2011 3:00 pm EST [No photo] One of the top 10 screenplays listed on The Black List this year was a script by JC Chandor titled Margin Call. The film, which is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, is “Based on true events,” and chronicles the final twenty-four hours of Lehman Brothers. The movie is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival with Chandor at the helm and starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, and Demi Moore....

‘The Expendables 3’ Is The First In The Franchise Rated PG-13 By Germain Lussier/July 2, 2014 9:30 am EST Normally, the rating of a film isn’t particularly important. In fact, ratings can totally fail to represent the content of a film. When the Motion Picture Association of America gives a sweet movie like Boyhood an R and a huge, destructive movie like Transformers: Age of Extinction a PG-13, it’s obvious the association’s judgement is questionable....

Adam Sandler Joins ‘The Cobbler’ From ‘Win Win’ Director Thomas McCarthy By Angie Han/Sept. 19, 2013 1:30 pm EST Following a string of broad comedies, Adam Sandler’s ready to get serious once again. The Grown Ups star just signed on for The Cobbler, the latest indie drama from Win Win director Thomas McCarthy. The news comes hot on the heels of last week’s announcement that he would also star in Men, Women & Children, a dark satire from Jason Reitman....

Behind The Scenes Footage And Concept Art From ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ Blu-Ray Extras By Germain Lussier/Nov. 19, 2012 2:17 pm EST UPDATE – Warner Bros. has asked us to remove all of the media attached to this story. No more video or photos. Sorry. Release of The Dark Knight Rises Blu-ray is mere weeks away and while it won’t have deleted scenes or a mythic director’s cut, there seems to be some cool stuff to satisfy your Bat-craving....

Boxer Mike Tyson Says Jamie Foxx To Play Him In Biopic By Hunter Stephenson/Feb. 29, 2008 3:50 pm EST “I have a movie on the verge of happening, probably in two years from now,” Tyson, 41, said Thursday before giving a speech at the Summit View Youth Correctional Facility in North Las Vegas. “Me and Jamie Foxx are going to do a collaboration. He’s going to play me in my life story....

C’mon! Brett Ratner To Direct Beverly Hills Cop 4? God Of War? Confirms Downey Jr. For Playboy By Hunter Stephenson/May 28, 2008 10:51 pm EST “Peace sign or eye gouge?” Before we begin, there is something you must know about Brett Ratner. Similar to the combination of gremlins and water, when the moon is right and Ratner applies baby powder to his ass, out pop multiple epic-ly shitty movies. Tonight, it was thick....

Cameo Bits: Bill Hader’s Voice, Anthony Weiner In ‘Alpha House’, Two For ‘22 Jump Street’ By Angie Han/Jan. 8, 2014 3:45 pm EST Potential spoilers for all three films follow. Scarlett Johansson’s getting all the attention for her voice-only role as lively, sexy Samantha in Her, but she’s not the only disembodied performer in the movie. Bill Hader can also be heard, briefly, in one early scene. But don’t feel bad if you don’t notice....